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Category Archives: attention
adhd tracking
“It’s essentially a dull, boring task,” he said of the Quotient system, “so do you want to medicate your child to pay attention to dull, boring tasks?” – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/health/01attention.html?pagewanted=2&hpw Dr. Martin H. Teicher – a researcher in attention deficit – … Continue reading
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/computer-jargon-baffles-users-hinders-security/ 1. Great opportunity for a comm project. 2.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/us/politics/20justice.html?hpw An article about the government’s internal stuggles over the terror memos of the bush asdministration reminds me of my own worries and self-flagellation when I realize I’ve been stupidly pursuing a … Continue reading
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experience economy
The basic idea of the experience economy was in my head soon after I got to ID, but I am only now reading it firsthand. The 1998 HBR article seems to be an excellent blueprint for creating a design consultancy … Continue reading
awareness
I think the zeitgiest of the past couple decades has been about the horror and difficulties of self-awareness, how when you realize you’re doing something or participating in something, it’s over. But there are certain things where you can be … Continue reading
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attention economy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy A highly relevant and timely idea, the attention economy is coming to be but not in the way expressed in this article at least. It lists some of Ronald Coase’s ideas about how to implement attention transactions, but doesn’t … Continue reading
acting
maybe actors are born by never learning, intuitively, to act. These simplest of people always show what they are feeling with direct, un-second-guessed earnestness. When somebody puts them into a situation, they baldly display their reaction to it. When a … Continue reading
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beautiful decay
Here’s my favorite part of my systems project. It kinda goes against the positive, generative mood I’ve been learning to focus on to the exclusion of my usual gloomy self, but I’m really enjoying the thought of it right now. … Continue reading